Trump targets White House reporter with ‘maggot’ insult, legal threats
In a continued pattern of criticism towards female journalists, President Donald Trump called a reporter from The New York Times a "maggot" and threatened to sue both her and the publication.
The president targeted Maggie Haberman, who is a White House correspondent for the Times and Trump biographer, in a Truth Social post on Sunday.
"Maggot Hagerman, just another SLEAZEBAG writer for The Failing New York Times, insists on writing false stories about me, even though she fully knows and understands that the exact opposite of anything she says is usually the truth," Trump said . "In any event, I'm thinking of adding Maggot, and some of her 'associates,' into my Florida based Lawsuit against The Times which, very happily, seems to be proceeding nicely."
Haberman is the author of the 2022 biography "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America."
On March 12, Kaitlan Collins, another White House correspondent who has been targeted by Trump, invited Haberman onto CNN to discuss the Trump administration's handling of the U.S. conflict with Iran.
"This is not something that most of the people in his orbit right now are having an easy time messaging or solving, and you can see that every day. But also, you and I both know it from our own reporting," Haberman told Collins regarding Trump's inner circling struggling to defend his implication that higher oil prices are beneficial to the U.S. economy.
This is not the first time Trump has publicly lashed out at female journalists.
In February, Trump called Collins "the worst reporter" who never smiles. He also called her "stupid and nasty" in December 2025 .
In November 2025, the president referred to another White House correspondent as "piggy" after she questioned him about his relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
He's also called New York Times reporter Katie Rogers "ugly, both inside and out" after she co-authored an article with the headline: " Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office ."
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